Up until the crit I had had loads of ideas but I felt that while some had potential to be final ideas, I also felt like none were original or visual pleasing and thus why I needed to work on the ideas further. While looking for inspiration I came across an article on It’s nice that, its was about a shortlist cover featuring David Lammy in which the idea was him rebranding Britain. The design studio created a series of street posters some with text provided by Lammy and his team revolving around uniting the country. The design of the poster struck me as they were bright, colourful and positive and I liked the idea of rebranding something without doing logos. The use of paper poser combined with wallpaper past really struck me as a cheap simple effective way to advertise something as it can literally go anywhere and placed over again and again. 

From this I sketched out a series of poster ideas and pent the rest of the day coming up with ideas and then creating and then creating them in photos and illustrator. Once I had created the series of posters I was happy with I printed them out really small and then began arranging them as if they were being put on a surface together to see how they worked and was really happy with how the tests looked.

Again while I had made great progress as with this idea I was able to include many aspects of super graphics but the use of scale see in many successful graphics was not present in my work and I was struggling to find a way to make this happen. Again completely by accident while I was researching street poster culture I came across a documentary about Shepred Fery and the Obey project and was fascinated to learn more about him as well as the process of creating these design to the lengths he goes to to achieve scale. This is what inspired me to think big and look for hidden places.

Today we had a super graphics workshop with Maakia from BA Graphics Design in which she provided up with some elements of typography and type. We were then tasked to create a super graphic in our groups to promote where Ravensbourne is in a window we picked. 

My group had one at the centre of the build ing so we had to tell people to go along the side of the building and then turn right to find the entrance. We decided to do this my having an arrow madE of arrows pointing in the direction of the entrance but with the arrows making the point would be pointing up and down to show the turn.

I was really impressed with our super graphic as i feel it portrays the journey of getting to the entrance well especially with the limited about of time we had. One issue that we needed to work on was without the blind it was really had to see so we would need to work on the background next time.

I found this workshop really helpful in making me think differently and more physically when designing my super graphic.

I found the group crits really helpful and enjoyable as talking to the people about there work and seeing other peoples perspectives on the brief as well as your work was interesting.

Here was my feefback:

I found this really helpful as i had loads of ideas and didn’t know what were the best qualities and which ones i should work on more and take further as well as how would i take them further. The ideas to use different fonts is an interesting one that i have never thought of before and is something i will consider moving forward.

On day 2 of super graphics i started to come us with ideas and then collect these together to start preparing my presentation for our group crits on Thursday. I would say the majority of my idea came out up just using my imagination in the space but there were things that inspired me like the station navigation lines at Victoria station. Here is a summery of my favourite ideas.

supergraphics – Here is a link to the full presentation

We began the day with a Briefing fro Soof about the super graphics projects as well as what super graphics are and how we should start thinking about our project. We then had a Super graphics lecture from Maaike (BA Graphic Design) with was really helpful as she have us many leads and artists to look at to begin our research.

After the talks we had a site visit to North Greenwich station and the surrounding areas to help us start thinking about how to promote the school in the area and what spaces we could use.

For me the main problem is that there is almost no advertising at all and even the stuff you see you dont know what it is for. There is alo a lack of space to work with to the super graphic will have to be self sustaining as well as original.

I was really happy with the way our happening turned out as i had constant doughts that we had not done enough but once we had set up despite the projector not working well i think what we created looked visually appealing and challenged the geometry of a party as well as paying homage to Bauhaus

One ting we took from the feed back was that the failure us to make sure we could work the projector was an oversight and i do believe that for a big part of our happening we should have put more time into it and done a better job. Another thing that i would have wanted to do if we had more time and money i s fill a whole room with the paper and shapes and play around the the perspectives f the party more.

I began day 2 of the happening prep days in a similar vein to day 2. I began by dividing to the team so 2 people worked on our presentation, one person worked on the animations for the projections and the rest carried on with making the bit and bobs for the party. I decided that we should start testing and finding and area for our happening. We looked at 3 different places and decided that we would need a lot more paper than we had realised as well as that we would need to work on making the area darker.

In the second half of the day we began work on our background for our happening which was going to be a space for the projections as well as a visual element with patterns on it.

This was something that was vital we had left time for as we had planed to use tape however we had limited resources as well as it being hard to make circles. We did a few tests with paint and pens before deciding to go with a thick marker.

I thin the day went well again as everyone was happy and had an assigned role to keep busy. The only draw back was we didn’t get to set up and test and actual visualise it in 3d rather than a drawing as well as get a run though of what would actually happen.

We began this day by splitting up the team as we had to begin our prep for our happening as well as finish creating our moving image invite.  I put myself on the happening creation team and began creating the different elements that we had planned for our party with my team. We managed to create Bauhaus Bunting, party hats, plates and “food” while other parts of the team worked on the animation for our final piece and the moving image invite.

at overall it was a really good day as we worked well together as a team and everyone worked for each other. I would that that despite us not finishing everything we needed for our final happening i think the team moral and everyone coming to believe in the event was more important.

We began the day with a talk from the course leaders from the motions graphics degree course and they spoke about group work as well as the process of working within motion graphics.

Once the talks were over we broke into groups and began brainstorming in our groups and began creating ideas.

We then created a storyboard

Our idea involved a stop motion and taking the normality of a birthday cake and forming the text info on the cake and the messing with the form of the cake. We realised that we would have to create this on Monday and so we began to plan how we would make it then.

On the second day of the Bauhaus project we come together in our groups to brainstorm and we started coming up with ideas. Two ideas the emerged early on were the idea that we wanted to take the typical birthday party and make it more abstract, as well as we decided that we wanted our happening to revolve around projected animation.

This was our final presentation that contains the sketches of the idea our inspirations as well as our thesis: